Congratulations to Sriram Malladi for being selected as the best paper in symposium 3: Modeling, Simulation and Control of Adaptive Systems at the upcoming ASME SMASIS 2013 for his paper entitled "Control Of Strain Characteristics Of SMA Wires Using Seebeck Voltage."

He will be honored at the Pioneer Banquet on Tuesday Sept 17th during the conference.

Tarek joined our group as part of the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP) at Virginia Tech. Tarek's project entitled "Impedance Based Structural Health Monitoring of Insulated Rail Joint" was sponsored by MAOP.

Tarek gave an oral presentation as well as participated in poster session.